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South Korean police cut through barbed wires and climbed over buses with ladders on Wednesday (Jan 15) to enter the presidential residence and arrest impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol over insurrection accusations.

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00:00South Korean police cut through barbed wires and climbed over buses with ladders on Wednesday
00:07to enter the presidential residence and arrest impeached President Yoon Suk-yol over insurrection
00:13accusations.
00:15The barbed wires and bus walls were built inside the main gate of Yoon's hillside residence
00:20where he has been holed up for weeks behind a small army of personal security.
00:25There was no physical conflict between the police and the presidential guards, local
00:29media reported.
00:31Yoon's lawyers had argued that attempts to detain Yoon were illegal and designed to publicly
00:36humiliate him.
00:37The warrant that investigators secured for his arrest was the first to be issued against
00:41an incumbent South Korean president.
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